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Flesh and blood
Literature and Fiction2022 · 240 pp

Flesh and blood

Mari Andreassen

Johanne’s due date is fast approaching, but the trauma of her previous labour has taken hold of her body. Her daughter Sigrid was born under dramatic circumstances via c-section, which led to mother and daughter being kept separate at the hospital during those first vital hours. Johanne is convinced the separation ruined her daughter’s connection with her and that it has become a permanent damage to their relationship. This time, with the new baby, everything needs to go well. The family finds out her husband’s great aunt Tilla has passed away. Johanne has never met her, but now her house needs to be cleaned out. Something awakens inside Johanne, and she becomes obsessed with finding out more about Tilla, who isolated herself in her house after becoming a widow and only met people sporadically. Could Johanne end up like that? Is she able to confront herself by mirroring herself up against the lonely life their great aunt led? Flesh and Blood is a novel about understanding and processing the distance between oneself and one’s closest relations. In Tilla’s life Johanne can see herself and her own fears. She must find new ways to handle and approach what’s awaiting her: the new labour, the new life for their family.

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Hunt for shadows
Literature and Fiction2022 · 240 pp

Hunt for shadows

Annabelle Despard

”We were a broken family. I don’t know if we were ever whole, but nonetheless I’d like to put it back together. I want a family reunion (…). I go outside. It’s become a search party. I finely comb the flower beds, ask the goldfish if they know something, look behind the sundial. Out on the fields I walk like a posse, all alone. I poke the dirt with a stick, but it seems disrespectful; I’m hunting for shadows. Nevertheless, I bust up bushes and shrubs, as if I’m on an English hunt for pheasants. As if my father would flap up like a large pheasant. A highly decorated pheasant in uniform. Just him? Where is my mother? Did she fly high like a swallow? Was she a pigeon who cooed by his side? And where are the playing children with blue eyes and curls?” Annabelle grows up in England, and as a five-year-old her mother passes away from cancer. Not long after she’s sent to Norway to live with her grandparents, while her father stays overseas. Hunt for Shadows is the adult author’s attempt to process the loss, the void, to examine how it’s affected her life. First and foremost, this book revolves around attempting to get to know the humans that put one on earth – putting together one’s family, piece by piece, like a puzzle. Why do we become the humans we do? How do our childhoods shape our lives? What does the loss of a mother and the absence of a father mean for the life that goes on? With warm humour and a lot of vulnerability, Annebelle goes to work investigating her father’s history, and she gradually gets close to recognising what the loss of her mother has meant for her. The result is a memoir full of subtleties, a small treasure chest of a book, which surprises and moves the reader.REVIEWS«The book is filled with fantasticly exciting observations, cross cuts between the author's life and the big classics in literature. She excels in referrals and digressions to British authors, to Shakespeare most of all.»Fædrelandsvennen, five/six stars«Annabelle Despard has succeeded in writing a wary and beautiful story where the very writing and narrative, composing and the literature is more important than her own person ...»Stavanger Aftenblad, five/six stars

The Knife in the Fire
Literature and Fiction2022 · 448 pp

The Knife in the Fire

Ingeborg Arvola

The Knife in the Fire is a riveting historical novel about work and love, strong communities, and carefree erotica, the individual and the community. The year is 1859. Brita Caisa Seipajærvi straps on her skis and takes the long road from Finland to Norway with her two children. Brita Caisa has been disciplined by the church for having an affair with a married man. She can heal animals and humans. The destination for their journey is Bugøynes, where the sea is said to be brimming with cod. The Knife in the Fire is the first title in the Ruijan rannalla/Songs from the Arctic Ocean series, about Finnish Kvens and the landscape they live in. Brita Caisa was the great-great-grandmother of author Ingeborg Arvola. Arvola’s writing evokes the smell of blood after slaughtering reindeer, the taste of cloudberries, the feeling of coldness from the snow and heat from the fire.WINNER OF THE BRAGE PRIZE FOR BEST WORK OF FICTION 2022NOMINATED TO NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE 2023NOMINATED FOR THE BOOKSELLER'S AWARD 2022NOMINATED FOR THE CRITIC'S AWARD 2022NOMINATED FOR THE YOUTH CRITIC'S AWARD 2022The Knife in the Fire is a magnificent epic tale by Ingeborg Arvola. A fascinating and riveting read, with an ending promising for a future continuation. And yes, the publisher promises that there will be a trilogy. ******VG A dramatic, poetic and steamy novel sets the bar high [M]ore than anything, it's the forbidden attraction and love between Brita Caisa and the married Askan Mikko that gives the story its force. It's been long since bodies and desire have been portrayed so nakedly and simply put, sexy, in a Norwegian book! A sensuous, realistic and very poetic novel.KLASSEKAMPENThis really is an absolute treat of a novel. *****ALTAPOSTENJuicy sex and unbridled desire... Bestseller-potential. ... a riveting novel about love, work and superstition. ... historically interesting. ... can be read in one lustful rush. *****DAGBLADET There is much to like about this novel, dealing with an less communicated part of the Norwegian, Sami and Kven history. The writing is excellent, the story is exciting and dramatic, the descriptions of the landscape are beautiful, and the character descriptions are realistic. *****AFTENPOSTENMost exciting is the descriptions of the love between Brita Caisa and the married farmer Mikko, with intensely sensual erotic writing as a result. Together they are greater than his bible and triumphing the judgement by society. STAVANGER AFTENBLADForbidden love, boiling arctic fishing and warm hands. Ingeborg Arvola's novel set in Northern Norway has everything required to become a bestseller. ... lovesickness this hot – and equally steamy lovemaking – I have not encountered in a Norwegian novel in quite some time.NRK.NO Oh my, The Knife in the Fire is a good book ... Human and nature really melt together when Brita and Mikko are alone (without clothes) in the dead of night. And here Arvola writes so intensely and powerfully that the reading glasses fog up to ... All in all, Arvola writes really, really well. Insanely well, in fact. Like a dream you didn't know you were walking around with.BERLINGSKE (DENMARK), five/six stars A fascinating novel about the problems of cohabitation among nomads in Lapland. POLITIKEN (DENMARK) Arvola writes a bygone world out of oblivion, a Scandinavian Wild West where life was hard and death quick. It is not difficult to understand why 'The Knife in the Fire' has received so much praise. In the novel there is a hard-to-define energy that inspires confidence in art as well as life. It radiates not only from the exceptional character of the protagonist but also from the very language of the book.GOTHENBURG POST (SWEDEN) It is not difficult to understand that Arvola was awarded the Brage Prize, Norway's highest literary award, for this novel. It is a fascinating portrait of people's lives in an area during a time rarely described in literature.VI LÄSER (SWEDEN) I am totally blown away by the power of the portrayal and without a doubt name this one of the greatest reading experiences of 2024, even though the year is only a few weeks old! ... [U]nforgettable and impressive. Ingeborg Arvola received the 2022 Norwegian Brage Award for the masterpiece. An excellent choice!ALINGSÅS NEWSPAPER (SWEDEN) It is a beautiful book with a poetic, soaring language ... a both painful and life-giving experience.SYDSVENSKAN (SWEDEN) It is with great empathy that Ingeborg Arvola puts Brita Caisa and her sons on a pair of skis and sends them out in search of a new life... I salute Marianne Mattsson, who must have struggled with the translation of a prose that wanted to maintain a linguistic tradition, where, for example, the same person can have three different names.AFTONBLADET (SWEDEN) Besides the figure of Brita Caisa Seipajærvi, who both fascinates and frustrates, it is the insight into a world that is new to me that is the biggest takeaway from 'The Knife in the Fire'. The northern Norwegian Finnmark, which I have never visited in reality, and neither can I remember travelling there via literature’s travel agency. Ingeborg Arvola succeeds in portraying both the magnificent and the challenging life that characterizes the place. The story teems like the cod in the sea off the coast.GEFLE NEWSPAPER (SWEDEN) Arvola creates a strong presence with her intense snapshots of work and togetherness with people living in the grip of nature and chance. Poetry flows through the brutal narrative while dreams turn to dust and Brita and Mikko walk towards the abyss. But the last word about them has not been said. A trilogy is promised. As a reader, you are hooked. You want to know how it goes for these tightly drawn people, drawn into a vortex of emotions and events.VÄSTERBOTTENS-KURIREN (SWEDEN) ... a captivating tale of Finns, Sámi, and Norwegians in the wilds of Finnmark – spiced with an Arctic love story.Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)

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Confirmation
Literature and Fiction2022 · 304 pp

Confirmation

Eivind Buene

How can you be a good dad when you only ever see your daughter for a few days at a time? Is it possible to put your differences aside and come together as a family again when your daughter is getting confirmed and a big party is being thrown in her honour? It’s late summer, and Endre is alone at the cabin with the boat. Long mornings tripping out to the mouth of the fjord, quiet days living as he pleases. He knows he’ll soon have to return to the city, to the flat in Grønland, to work—and for Emma’s confirmation. Years have passed since he and Emma’s mother split up. Have they co-parented well enough over the years? Have they managed to give their daughter, Emma, a good life? Can Endre say that he’s done his best as a part-time father? And what awaits Endre now that his daughter is on the cusp of adulthood and soon to start making her own way in life? Confirmation is raw, tender and exploratory.

Woman, missing
Literature and Fiction2022 · 176 pp

Woman, missing

Didrik Morits Hallstrøm

Håvard lives a quiet life in a small village on the west coast of Norway. Everything changes when Susanne, a bubbly girl from Oslo, moves into the house next door with her boyfriend. During a few warm summer months Håvard and Susanne begin an intense and secret relationship. A relationship that ends when Susanne suddenly vanishes in the mountain. Håvard doesn’t give up hope about finding her. Susanne must be out there somewhere. No one just disappears. Woman, Missing is something as rare as a tender and poetic suspense novel.

White, Norwegian man
Literature and Fiction2022 · 96 pp

White, Norwegian man

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

what do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a white, Norwegian man White, Norwegian Man is a touching and important book about a subject many experience every day – namely racism. In this poetry collection the author Brynjulf Jung Tjønn depicts his own experiences of racism. Brynjulf Jung Tjønn was adopted from South Korea to Norway as a child and has always noticed that he looks different, as he puts it himself. With the pandemic – and the awareness around racism and Asian hate – he got new and painful perspectives about his own background and upbringing. White, Norwegian Man is about Norway and the racism many ignore, both the hidden type and the visible one. And not to mention the lonely human who hopes for understanding and finding somewhere to feel at home.WINNER OF THE CRITIC'S AWARD 2022NOMINATED TO THE YOUTH CRITIC'S AWARD 2022NORLA SELECTED TITLE SPRING 2023 ‘What a clenched fist of a book this is! .... Among the most powerful things I’ve read. Everyone should read it.’VG, six/six stars‘A gripping poetry collection about racism. ... a tragic seriousness, often wrapped in witty turns of phrase. ... I would recommend it to any young adult and up, but also for use in anti-racist work and in classrooms.’FRAMTIDA, six/six stars ‘Poetic protest against racism. ... one poem in particular is so compelling and gripping I think it will remain forever in Norwegian literature ... a wistful, vital and necessary contribution to contemporary literature.’AFTENPOSTEN 'Brynjulf Jung Tjønn's poems about the experience of adoption breathes of life.'KLASSEKAMPEN 'It's been a while since I've read something as brutally vulnerable and poetically probing as this. [...] really, when I think about it, these poems should be read by absolutely everyone.'NRK.NO

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My World of Wreck
Literature and Fiction2022 · 100 pp

My World of Wreck

Cornelius Jakhelln

Cornelius Jakhelln’s tenth poetry collection is set in Kristiansand. Or more precisely Cornelius’ Kristiansand, a place and town which slowly slides into memories and at the same time becomes someone else’s Kristiansand. The narrator’s daughter also grows up in Kristiansand, but her town is a different one. With a viewpoint anchored in a distinct and clear point in geography and history, the reader is treated to looking both backwards and forwards. With an open and curious mind, Jakhelln questions what it means to be a human in history, where we come from and where we are going? Or as the subtitle puts it: “Poems migrated from the tree of life”.

They’ll Return in the Autumn
Literature and Fiction2022 · 280 pp

They’ll Return in the Autumn

Håvard J. Nilsen

The new students have arrived from all over; in cars, by train and bus, they have been left here with all their belongings, and they’ve spread out all over the hallways, taken over the rooms, filled them with their posters, their stereos, perfume, candles and dreams. They’ll Return in the Autumn is a novel set at the folk high school in Sandvik, about being the child of a teacher, about writing. It’s about the unsure and the sincere, those who stand staring at the stars with their father, those who walk around waiting for the world to end. It’s about finding one another and hanging lanterns in the trees.

Casualty of War
Literature and Fiction2022 · 368 pp

Casualty of War

Peter Franziskus Strassegger

One day, while tidying up, an author comes across a confession written by his grandfather. He isn’t unfamiliar with what he reads, but the new text brings new truths to light. Peter gains a deeper insight into his grandfather’s involvement in the war—at least as his grandfather chooses to remember it.This confession forms the basis of an intricate and exciting story from the Second World War. The grandfather’s story is characterised by a desire for adventure and a need to grow as a person in his hometown of Bryne, in Germany and on the frontline in Russia. But it also contains many unpleasant truths—particularly for Peter, who distances himself from his grandfather’s political position. With empathy, intelligence and a searching gaze, the author explores his grandfather’s story from the war. He travels to the same places, including Russia, and tries to understand what motivated his grandfather.

The Bellboy´s Luggage
Literature and Fiction2022 · 640 pp

The Bellboy´s Luggage

Lars Saabye Christensen

In The Bellboy's Luggage - Three Stories we venture into three different literary universes. Still, the narratives are connected through the author's unmistakable style and his topics of choice. Here we meet known and loved themes and artifacts from Saabye Christensen's repertoire, stories characterized by an author with great confidence in his own material. An author that dares to venture outside the frames of both novel and short story - without letting go of the joy and power of storytelling. Wild Wine, Polaroid and Used can be read as three unique stories. But they also form a triptych whose body consists of the Saabyean in itself. In these stories we find that the streets of Oslo and the characters at the outskirts of great events come into clearer view than ever before. The Bellboy's Luggage is a gift to anyone who has ever been excited about the writing of Lars Saabye Christensen.

Room 66
Literature and Fiction2022 · 224 pp

Room 66

Hedda Robertsen

The protagonist in Hedda Robertsen’s new novel, Room 66, clearly shares characteristics with the author. She—a young author living near Oslo’s oldest church—devours books and films about nuns and monastic life. She dreams of renouncing desire, of purity, a strict and regimented life characterised by routine and dedication to a task, a calling. But other forces also tug at her: she hungers for genuine connections with other people—with men. After several encounters with a nameless mechanic, she hires a car and heads south. Alone. Her destination? A convent in France. We also meet Chris. Single mother by day, stripper by night. At the club, she goes by Alice. Chléo is a receptionist and works at a beach hotel in France. Iris is a nun, and every morning she puts on her black habit and goes to prayer with her head bowed. Emma lives in London and lives in a sexless relationship with architect James. She starts sleeping with random men. The five women find one another and share their stories of love, grief, loss and passion.«It's an interesting and at times intelligent book about finding yourself sexually, but also as a human.»STAVANGER AFTENBLAD, five/six stars«To write about sex without it being awkward can be considered an achievement, and Room 66 is closer to Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac than Fifty Shades of Gray. The novel's extent of references and cultural undertones has higher intellectual ambitions, which is a breath of fresh air for Norwegian fiction.» MORGENBLADET«It's refreshing that Robertsen allows her characters to be unrestrained, and never forces them to be moral or politically correct. When the characters want to be beaten, filled - desired and enjoyed, they are more worried about how it will affect themselves, than how the actions are read by fellow citizens and society. They are all prepared to sacrifice the conventional to experience the special.»KLASSEKAMPEN, BOKMAGASINET

Sifonofor
Literature and Fiction2022 · 80 pp

Sifonofor

Lisa Him-Jensen

What patterns do we humans live and operate within? And what kind of order constitutes this ‘we’? The poems this collection reflect a lifelong quest for knowledge – from conception to the body’s eventual deterioration. A child discovers language, a young woman starts studying and discovering desire. A forest cockchafer swarms around a farmyard tree. Humanity tries to understand the boundless, resolute world of which we live – a world that goes on and on, a world home to countless organisms that all rely on one another to survive. In Siphonophorae, Lisa Him-Jensen plays around with contrasts and contradictions to great effect. A collection in which the reader is presented with one common motif throughout – that of humanity’s dependence on other people, and of our being a part of nature.